High dynamic range imaging From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In
image processing,
computer graphics, and
photography,
high dynamic range imaging (
HDRI or just
HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater
dynamic range of
luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.
[1] The two main sources of HDR imagery are
computer renderings and merging of multiple photographs, the latter of which in turn are individually referred to as low dynamic range (LDR)
[2] or standard dynamic range (SDR)
[3] photographs.
Tone mapping techniques, which reduce overall contrast to facilitate display of HDR images on devices with lower dynamic range, can be applied to produce images with preserved or exaggerated local contrast for artistic effect
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